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1911 · PDF PAGE 43

The Vision and the Voice

…erefore, and rejoice, for thou art the prophet of the Aeon arising, wherein He is not. Give thou praise unto thy lady Nuit, and unto her lord Hadit, that are for thee and thy bride, and the winners of the ordeal X. And with that we are come to the wall of the Aethyr, and there is a little narrow gate, and he pushes me through it, and I am suddenly in the desert. THE DESERT, NEAR Bou-SAapa.* November 29, 1909. 1.30-2.50 p.m. Tue Cry OF THE 20TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED KHR The dew that was upon the face of the stone is gone, and it is become like…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 375

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…e hand, and repellent as it was to my Protestant instincts on the other. I could not help being struck by the first of the collects. ‘“‘ Lord visible and sensible, of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, source of liberty, let thy perpetual radiance hearten us to con- tinual labour and enjoyment ; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without di…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 51

The Vision and the Voice

THE VISION AND THE VOICE She comes and kisses me on the mouth, and says: Blessed art thou who hast beheld Sebek my Lord in his glory. Many are the champions of life, but all are unhorsed by the lance of death. Many are the children of the light, but their eyes shall all be put out by the Mother Darkness. Many are the servants of love, but love (that is not quenched by aught but love) shall be put out, as the child taketh the wick of a taper between his thumb and finger, by the god that sitteth alone. And on her mouth, like a chrysanthemum of ra…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 296

The Star in the West

…ritually minded . ? . Go out one night to a distant and lonely heath , if no moun tain summit is available : then at midnight repeat the Lord's Prayer , or any invocation with which you happen to be familiar , or one made up by yourself , or one consisting wholly of senseless and barbarous words . Repeat it solemnly and aloud , expectant of some great and mysterious result. I pledge myself , if you have a spark of religion in you , that is , if you are properly a human being, that you will (at the very least ) experience a deeper sense of spiri…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 374

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…s to come.” I have always told myself that I had not a spark of religious feeling, yet Basil once told me that the text “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” ought to be translated ‘‘ The wonderment at the forces of nature is the beginning of wisdom.” He claims that every one who is interested in science is necessarily religious, and that those who despise it and detest it are the real blasphemers.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 165

Moonchild

…hester and Balliol; Lieutenant Royal Artillery 1868; Indian Political Department 1873; in 188o m. Adelaide, only d. of the late Rt. Hon. Lord Ashley Lovell, P.C.; one s., Cyril St. John, q.v. Residence, The Round Tower, Co. Cork; Bartland Barrows, Wilts.; 93, Arlington Street. W. Clubs. Carlton, Athenaeum, Travellers', Hemlock, etc. Amusements: Hunting, talking shop." [233] "You dear incorrigible boy!" He took her hand and kissed it. "And am I to see something of you now?" "Oh, we're all penny plain humans from now on. It's merely a question of…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 65

The Vision and the Voice

…fallen upon it, and mine entrails are about my feet. Who shall strive with his might? Hath he not the sword and the spear of the Warrior Lord of the Sun? Who shall contend with him? Who shall lift himself up against him? 63

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1922 · PDF PAGE 58

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…way. They were taught that if one had good blood in one’s veins, and a public school and university training to habituate one to being a lord of creation, and to the feeling that

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1904 · PDF PAGE 70

The Goetia

…, Elohi, Ehyeh Asher €bpeb, sabaoth, Elion, Jab, Cetragrammaton, Shaddai, Enapo Fad Ehyeh, Zabaoth, Elion, Iah, Tetragrammaton, Shaddai, Lord God 54

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1906 · PDF PAGE 37

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…, flame, O meteor Car ! Isis, Our Lady ! Vv. ‘“rike, strike the louder chord! Draw, draw the flaming sword, Crowned child and conquering Lord: Horus, avenger. Vi. Dawn-star of flaming light, Five rays in one unite, Light, Life, Love, Mercy, Might, Star of the Magi. VII. Lift, lift the Cross of Light,_: Rose, golden, green, and white, Rise, rise athwart the night! Mighty Aeshuri ! VIII. Flame, flame, thou Blazoned Sun! Seal-Star of Solomon ! Seven Mysteries in One ! Godhead and Mankind ! IX. Beauty and life and love ! Let fly thy darling dove ! …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 95

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…. “I’m a very much wanted man. Every one seems. to want me but the police,” he giggled, ‘“ and they may get on to me any minute now, the Lord knows.” He became suddenly serious as he talked on the phone. “Oh, yes,” he said to the caller. “ Very annoying indeed. What’s that? Four o'clock? All right, ul be round.” He hung up. He came back to us radiant, holding out his hands. “My dear friends,” he said. ‘“ This is a special providence—nothing less. The lunch is off. If your invitation holds, I shall be the happiest man in Europe.” Well, of course…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 6

The Book of Thoth

… Quodam Modo Meditationis; Se‐ quitur De Hac Re; Conclusio De Hoc Modo Sanctitatis; De Via Sola Solis. The Magus— i. De Mercuno; ii. The Lord of Illusion; Fortune, R.O.T.A. —The Wheel; Lust, Babalon; Art, The Ar‐ row; The Universe. The Virgin Universe.

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1907 · PDF PAGE 249

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…ssible event, ii. 81 Not wingéd forms, nor powers of air, 1. 74 Now (higher on the Human Ladder), il. 210 Now is our sin requited of the Lord, i. 66 Now is the gold gone of the year, ili, 188 Now on the land the woods are green, i. 120 Now the great elephant strode with lordly foot- steps in the forest, il, 227 Now the road widens and grows darker still, lil, 180 Now, when the sun falls in the dismal sky, il. 85 Now your grave eyes are filled with tears, iil. 11 O BLUEBELL of the inmost wood, ili. 14 O body pale and beautiful with sin, i. 117 O…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 270

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e to me. O Light of day, O torch O lamentable season of Apollo, When swoops his glory to the golden wave ! As all his children, so their lord shall follow ! The flower he slew, the maiden he would save, As Itylus,? light woven, tuned! Oh swallow, Bewail their grave! The gracious breast of Artemis may light me_ To men—yet loved I ever Artemis? Surely the vine-song and the dance delight me, The sea-blue bowers where Aphrodite is, Terrible gods and destinies excite me, The strange sad kiss. Thus may no moon tell Earth my story after, No virgin sin…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 197

Magick Without Tears

…se a spectacular rise in a man's career, ending in an equally notable crash. Examples : Napoleon I and III, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe , Hitler. Look for figures with Saturn thus placed, whose natives have jogged along equably and died in the odour of sanctity. Find out why what worked in some cases failed in others. By the time you have studied (say) 500 nativities you will be already a fairly competent judge. Work your bloody guns! as Kipling says; get a friend-just this once I allow you human intercourse-to set up for you …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 110

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…not battered by rough winds So far but what some fight were possible. MEDEA. [Leads forward ABSYRTUS.] I know a better way than that, my lord. This boy shall come with us. JASON. Ah, not to Greece ! Aea needs to-morrow’s king. MEDEA. “With us” I said. ‘* To Greece ’—I said not. CHORUS. What is this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come love, to the long years of love with me ! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The body-guardians of the Golden Fleece ! MEDEA. Guarding your king and queen on every side— CHORUS. We sa…

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1915 · PDF PAGE 4

The World On Fire

Edward VII spoke English with an accent; and at the first hour of war with Germany we found the first Lord of the Admiralty a German Prince! Until this year England has never been at war with Germany in the course of history since the Conquest. Our very speech, half German, betrayeth us. All this is finished. The German is a Hun, and a Vandal, and a monster, and a woman-torturer, and a child-murderer, and runs away in his millions at the sight of a Territorial from Hoxton. And the British Army has won victory after victory against enormous odds…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 307

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…two tales to be told. Our most distinguished passenger was a venerable missionary returning to America after many years labouring in the Lord's vineyard. He had just become celebrated, a riot having taken place in which his mission was destroyed. His wife and children, his native teachers and his converts were mostly murdered. He himself had, however, been preserved fro the Lord's service by the direct interposition of the Almighty, who had warned him at the first rumour of trouble to leave his family and block to their fate and flee to a conve…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 65

The Star in the West

58 THE STAR IN THE WEST He swore the third time . But that Heaven's Lord Curbed their black wrath , the stars of Heaven's vault Had rushed to whelm the sun with vehement assault ." Such is the power of Love , undaunted , infuriated in the cause of Freedom , Justice , and Truth . Charicles plunges into the waves of destiny , “ And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped . ” Onward he swims striving against Poseidon , god of the ocean , who heaps the sea foam against him , as he makes for the Paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess o…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 533

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ound myself on the edge of the oasis which I was to make my home. I had identified myself with the god of my Grade of Magus, Tahuti, the Lord of the Word, and I was invested accordingly with the attributes proper to him. The last of the officers in my initiation was the Ape of Thoth. This creature translates into action his thought or, in other words, is the instrument through which his idea assumes sensible form. This Ape became my permanent companion. At this moment, she is beside me in a bathing house at Marsa Plage near Tunis, writing these…

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